Her bloodsugar is 140 mg/dL. Do you: A) Reduce her pump’s temp basalrate before you start running to keep her bloodsugar stable and prevent a low. miles because the CGM says 85 mg/dL and still dropping, and keep feeding her fast-acting sugars.

But overnight fasting basalrate testing sucks, so I kept putting it off. The idea behind basalrate testing is to eliminate as many variables as possible, so that any changes you see in your bloodsugar are most likely from your basalrate.

Anyway, after the final gut-wrenching, heart-pumping scene, I decided to check my bloodsugar. With blood that sweet, I felt like the grand prize for any vampires that might happen to be lurking in my neighborhood.

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